CBC Ottawa news quiz for the week of Feb. 6

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How closely did you follow the past week in local news?
Trevor Pritchard
Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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Matias Munoz says he was left shaken after two people apparently came into his downtown apartment building early Sunday morning and did what?
Answer
  • Scrawled racist slurs on the walls.
  • Tried to set a fire in the lobby.
  • Stole more than a dozen bicycles from a storage area.
  • Emptied an envelope with white powder in an elevator.

Question 2

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Ottawa police said Tuesday that their ability to handle the ongoing COVID-19 mandate protests was being hampered by the fact nearly one quarter of the trucks involved had what?
Answer
  • Their air brakes engaged.
  • Flammable materials in their trailers.
  • No licence plates.
  • Children inside.

Question 3

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A 20-year-old U.S. man could face charges in relation to the protests after he allegedly did what?
Answer
  • Draped a "F-ck Trudeau" banner off the Thousand Islands Bridge.
  • Mistakenly called in a bomb threat to police in Ottawa, Ohio.
  • Painted an eagle with the colours of the Canadian flag and brought it to Parliament Hill.
  • Hacked into the City of Ottawa's YouTube page and disrupted a council meeting.

Question 4

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Andrea Waddell told CBC News the cumulative stress from two years of a pandemic and the protests has caused her hair to fall out. What does Waddell do?
Answer
  • She's an OC Transpo bus driver.
  • She's a nurse at The Ottawa Hospital.
  • She's a cashier at the Farm Boy at the Rideau Centre.
  • She's a soon-to-be-retired bylaw officer.

Question 5

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Which Ottawa-based agency said this week it was "blown away" by nearly $750,000 in donations that had rolled in since the start of the protests?
Answer
  • The Shepherds of Good Hope.
  • The Ottawa Food Bank.
  • The Centretown Community Health Centre.
  • The Ontario Trucking Association.

Question 6

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Marcie Stevens, a survivor of the 2019 bus crash at Westboro station, was one of the people who spoke out in favour of which project that got the thumbs-up Thursday from Ottawa's planning committee?
Answer
  • The parking garage for the future Civic hospital campus.
  • A state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation centre.
  • A slate of accessibility improvements at OC Transpo stations.
  • A 12-storey supportive housing complex in Stittsville.

Question 7

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In a rare step, Ottawa city council overturned a previous decision by the planning committee this week and nixed which of the following projects?
Answer
  • Embassies that were to be built on Mechanicsville green space.
  • A trio of warehouses planned for Walkley Road.
  • A proposed expansion of a ByWard Market homeless shelter.
  • A luxury car dealership that would have opened in Vanier.

Question 8

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According to a senior source in Doug Ford's government, Ontario is looking at doing away with the fee for which of the following?
Answer
  • Renewing a vehicle licence.
  • Visiting or camping at provincial parks if you're a senior citizen.
  • Filing a freedom of information request.
  • Recycling electronic products.

Question 9

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Standing six-foot-four and weighing 290 pounds, Chris Fournier is one of five Ottawa-raised athletes hoping to launch pro careers this April in which of the following sports?
Answer
  • American football.
  • Baseball.
  • Mixed martial arts.
  • Sumo wrestling.

Question 10

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On Friday, Cody McNeil met some of the firefighters who saved his life five years earlier when he was just a toddler. What had happened?
Answer
  • His crib caught fire.
  • He fell through the Rideau River ice.
  • Carbon monoxide leaked into his family's apartment.
  • He was trapped under a collapsed play structure.
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